Bank Holiday Opening Hours
A reminder of our Bank Holiday opening hours:
Saturday 28th May: The Library will be open from 09.45 - 17.30
The Library will be closed on Sunday and also on Bank Holiday Monday 30th May.
Friday, 27 May 2011
A Selection of New Books - Asia
A selection of new books from South and South East Asia added to the collection this month are listed below:
Malaysia : human rights report 2008 : civil & political rights. Selangor, Malaysia : Suaram Kommunikasi, c2009.
Baruah, Sanjib (ed). Ethnonationalism in India : a reader. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Brunner, Hans-Peter. North East India : local economic development and global markets. New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2010.
Buch, Nirmala. From oppression to assertion : women and panchayats in India. Delhi : Routledge India; c2010.
Chowdhury, Kanishka. The new India : citizenship, subjectivity, and economic liberalization. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
Deo, Nandini. The politics of collective advocacy in India : tools and traps. Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2011.
Faraizi, Aminul Haque, Taskinur Rahman and Jim McAllister. Microcredit and women's empowerment : a case study of Bangladesh. London : Routledge, c2011.
Gilani, Ijaz Shafi, The voice of the people : public opinion in Pakistan 2007-2009. Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Holt, Sarah. Aid, peacebuilding and the resurgence of war : buying time in Sri Lanka. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Hossain, Shahadat. Urban poverty in Bangladesh : slum communities, migration and social integration. London : I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Kaviraj, Sudipta. The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas. New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press, c2010.
Kazi, Seema. In Kashmir : gender, militarization & the modern nation-state. Brooklyn, NY : South End Press, 2010.
Kua, Kia Soong. 20 years defending human rights. Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia : SUARAM, [c2009]
Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D'Souza (eds). The British Empire and the natural world : environmental encounters in South Asia. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Leong, Wai Kum. The Singapore Women's Charter : 50 questions. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
Milner, Anthony. The Malays. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Panagariya, Arvind. India : the emerging giant. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Pande, Ishita. Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal : symptoms of empire. Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Raj, Subhendu Ranjan. Coalition politics in India : dimensions of federal power sharing. New Delhi : Manak Publications, 2009.
Ranganathan, Maya. Eelam online : the Tamil diaspora and war in Sri Lanka. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, c2010.
Roy, Anupama. Mapping citizenship in India. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Saif, Lubna. Authoritarianism and underdevelopment in Pakistan, 1947-1958, the role of the Punjab. Karachi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Saravanamuttu, Johan. Malaysia's foreign policy : the first fifty years : alignment, neutralism, Islamism. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010.
Schaffer, Howard B. How Pakistan negotiates with the United States : riding the roller coaster. Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, 2011.
Shaban, Abdul. Mumbai : political economy of crime and space. New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2010.
Shankar, B. L. The Indian Parliament : a democracy at work. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Siddiqui, Kamal et al. Social formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005 : a longitudinal study of society in a third world megacity. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
de Silva Jayasuria, Shihan. African diaspora in Asian trade routes and cultural memories, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.
Singh, A.K., S.P. Singh and D.S. Sutaria (eds) Gender budgeting and women empowerment in India. New Delhi : Serials Publications, 2010.
Sobhan, Rehman. Challenging the injustice of poverty : agendas for inclusive development in South Asia. New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2010.
Sury, M. M. India : sixty years of planned economic development, 1950 to 2010. New Delhi, India : New Century Publications, 2010.
Malaysia : human rights report 2008 : civil & political rights. Selangor, Malaysia : Suaram Kommunikasi, c2009.
Baruah, Sanjib (ed). Ethnonationalism in India : a reader. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Brunner, Hans-Peter. North East India : local economic development and global markets. New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2010.
Buch, Nirmala. From oppression to assertion : women and panchayats in India. Delhi : Routledge India; c2010.
Chowdhury, Kanishka. The new India : citizenship, subjectivity, and economic liberalization. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
Deo, Nandini. The politics of collective advocacy in India : tools and traps. Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2011.
Faraizi, Aminul Haque, Taskinur Rahman and Jim McAllister. Microcredit and women's empowerment : a case study of Bangladesh. London : Routledge, c2011.
Gilani, Ijaz Shafi, The voice of the people : public opinion in Pakistan 2007-2009. Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Holt, Sarah. Aid, peacebuilding and the resurgence of war : buying time in Sri Lanka. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Hossain, Shahadat. Urban poverty in Bangladesh : slum communities, migration and social integration. London : I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Kaviraj, Sudipta. The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas. New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press, c2010.
Kazi, Seema. In Kashmir : gender, militarization & the modern nation-state. Brooklyn, NY : South End Press, 2010.
Kua, Kia Soong. 20 years defending human rights. Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia : SUARAM, [c2009]
Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D'Souza (eds). The British Empire and the natural world : environmental encounters in South Asia. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Leong, Wai Kum. The Singapore Women's Charter : 50 questions. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
Milner, Anthony. The Malays. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Panagariya, Arvind. India : the emerging giant. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Pande, Ishita. Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal : symptoms of empire. Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Raj, Subhendu Ranjan. Coalition politics in India : dimensions of federal power sharing. New Delhi : Manak Publications, 2009.
Ranganathan, Maya. Eelam online : the Tamil diaspora and war in Sri Lanka. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, c2010.
Roy, Anupama. Mapping citizenship in India. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Saif, Lubna. Authoritarianism and underdevelopment in Pakistan, 1947-1958, the role of the Punjab. Karachi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Saravanamuttu, Johan. Malaysia's foreign policy : the first fifty years : alignment, neutralism, Islamism. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010.
Schaffer, Howard B. How Pakistan negotiates with the United States : riding the roller coaster. Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, 2011.
Shaban, Abdul. Mumbai : political economy of crime and space. New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2010.
Shankar, B. L. The Indian Parliament : a democracy at work. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Siddiqui, Kamal et al. Social formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005 : a longitudinal study of society in a third world megacity. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
de Silva Jayasuria, Shihan. African diaspora in Asian trade routes and cultural memories, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.
Singh, A.K., S.P. Singh and D.S. Sutaria (eds) Gender budgeting and women empowerment in India. New Delhi : Serials Publications, 2010.
Sobhan, Rehman. Challenging the injustice of poverty : agendas for inclusive development in South Asia. New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2010.
Sury, M. M. India : sixty years of planned economic development, 1950 to 2010. New Delhi, India : New Century Publications, 2010.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
A selection of new books - Africa
Some new books added to the catalogue this month:
Gender mainstreaming experiences from eastern and southern Africa. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, c2010.
Rwanda presidential elections : 9 August 2010 / the report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.
Akonor, Kwame. African economic institutions. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Barkan, Joel D. (ed) Legislative power in emerging African democracies. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
Barume, Albert Kwokwo. Land rights of indigenous peoples in Africa : with special focus on Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2010.
Beinart, William and Marcelle C. Dawson (eds). Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa. Johannesburg : Witwatersrand Univ Press, 2010.
Bray, Rachel et al. Growing up in the new South Africa : childhood and adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town. Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2010.
Brownell, Josiah. The collapse of Rhodesia : population demographics and the politics of race. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Carson, Tracy M. Tomorrow it could be you : strikes and boycotts in South Africa, 1978-1982. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Couper, Scott. Albert Luthuli : bound by faith. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010.
Crush, Jonathan et al, Migration, remittances and "development" in Lesotho. Cape Town : Southern African Migration Programme, 2010.
Cruvellier, T. Court of remorse : inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / translated by Chari Voss. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.
de Silva Jayasuria, Shihan. African diaspora in Asian trade routes and cultural memories, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.
Ejiogu, E. C. The roots of political instability in Nigeria : political evolution and development in the Niger Basin. Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2011.
Endo, Isaku et al. Uganda's remittance corridors from United Kingdom, United States, and South Africa : challenges to linking remittances to the use of formal services. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2011.
Fourie, Pieter. The politics of AIDS denialism : South Africa's failure to respond. Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Pub., c2010.
Fujii, Lee Ann. Killing neighbors : webs of violence in Rwanda. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Goldberg, Denis. The mission : a life for freedom in South Africa. Johannesburg : STE Publishers, 2010.
Grunebaum, Heidi. Memorializing the past : everyday life in South Africa after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2011.
Hebinck, Paul and Charlie Shackleton (eds). Reforming land and resource use in South Africa : impact on livelihoods. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Hodgson, Rica. Foot soldier for freedom : a life in South Africa's liberation movement. Johannesburg : Picador Africa, 2010.
Jansen, Jonathan D. Knowledge in the blood : confronting race and the apartheid past. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Kasrils, Ronald. The unlikely secret agent. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2010.
Kidombo, Pius K. The architecture of corruption in Kenya. Nairobi : Sino Printers and Publishers, 2007.
Lambright, Gina M. S. Decentralization in Uganda : explaining successes and failures in local governance. Boulder, Colo. : FirstForumPress, 2011.
Ley, Astrid. Housing as governance : interfaces between local government and civil society organisations in Cape Town, South Africa. Berlin : Lit, 2010.
Magubane, Bernard. Bernard Magubane : my life & times / by Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane with Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010.
Marais, Hein. South Africa pushed to the limit : the political economy of change. London : Zed, 2011.
Marschall, Sabine. Landscape of memory : commemorative monuments, memorials and public statuary in post-apartheid South-Africa. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J and James Muzondidya (eds). Redemptive or grotesque nationalism? : rethinking contemporary politics in Zimbabwe. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Obadare, Ebenezer. Statism, youth, and civic imagination : a critical study of the National Youth Service Corps Programme in Nigeria. Dakar, Senegal : Codesria, c2010.
Obi, Cyril and Siri Aas Rustad (eds). Oil and insurgency in the Niger Delta : managing the complex politics of petro-violence. London ; New York : Zed Books Ltd., c2011
Osei, Philip D. and Joan N Nwasike. The contract system of employment for senior government officials : experiences from Africa. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.
Piper, Laurence. To serve and protect : the Inkathagate Scandal / as told to Laurence Piper by Brian Morrow. Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2010.
Quinn, Joanna R. The politics of acknowledgement : truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
Sadomba, Zvakanyorwa Wilbert. War veterans in Zimbabwe's revolution : challenging neo-colonialism & settler & international capital. Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2011.
Sarkin-Hughes, Jeremy. Colonial genocide and reparations claims in the 21st century : the socio-legal context of claims under international law by the Herero against Germany for genocide in Namibia, 1904-1908. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2009.
Sherwood, Marika. Origins of Pan-Africanism : Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa and the African diaspora. New York : Routledge, 2011.
Stapleton, Timothy. A military history of South Africa : from the Dutch-Khoi wars to the end of apartheid. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.
Vickers, Michael. A nation betrayed : Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2010.
Gender mainstreaming experiences from eastern and southern Africa. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, c2010.
Rwanda presidential elections : 9 August 2010 / the report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.
Akonor, Kwame. African economic institutions. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Barkan, Joel D. (ed) Legislative power in emerging African democracies. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
Barume, Albert Kwokwo. Land rights of indigenous peoples in Africa : with special focus on Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2010.
Beinart, William and Marcelle C. Dawson (eds). Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa. Johannesburg : Witwatersrand Univ Press, 2010.
Bray, Rachel et al. Growing up in the new South Africa : childhood and adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town. Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2010.
Brownell, Josiah. The collapse of Rhodesia : population demographics and the politics of race. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Carson, Tracy M. Tomorrow it could be you : strikes and boycotts in South Africa, 1978-1982. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Couper, Scott. Albert Luthuli : bound by faith. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010.
Crush, Jonathan et al, Migration, remittances and "development" in Lesotho. Cape Town : Southern African Migration Programme, 2010.
Cruvellier, T. Court of remorse : inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / translated by Chari Voss. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.
de Silva Jayasuria, Shihan. African diaspora in Asian trade routes and cultural memories, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.
Ejiogu, E. C. The roots of political instability in Nigeria : political evolution and development in the Niger Basin. Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2011.
Endo, Isaku et al. Uganda's remittance corridors from United Kingdom, United States, and South Africa : challenges to linking remittances to the use of formal services. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2011.
Fourie, Pieter. The politics of AIDS denialism : South Africa's failure to respond. Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Pub., c2010.
Fujii, Lee Ann. Killing neighbors : webs of violence in Rwanda. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Goldberg, Denis. The mission : a life for freedom in South Africa. Johannesburg : STE Publishers, 2010.
Grunebaum, Heidi. Memorializing the past : everyday life in South Africa after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2011.
Hebinck, Paul and Charlie Shackleton (eds). Reforming land and resource use in South Africa : impact on livelihoods. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Hodgson, Rica. Foot soldier for freedom : a life in South Africa's liberation movement. Johannesburg : Picador Africa, 2010.
Jansen, Jonathan D. Knowledge in the blood : confronting race and the apartheid past. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Kasrils, Ronald. The unlikely secret agent. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2010.
Kidombo, Pius K. The architecture of corruption in Kenya. Nairobi : Sino Printers and Publishers, 2007.
Lambright, Gina M. S. Decentralization in Uganda : explaining successes and failures in local governance. Boulder, Colo. : FirstForumPress, 2011.
Ley, Astrid. Housing as governance : interfaces between local government and civil society organisations in Cape Town, South Africa. Berlin : Lit, 2010.
Magubane, Bernard. Bernard Magubane : my life & times / by Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane with Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010.
Marais, Hein. South Africa pushed to the limit : the political economy of change. London : Zed, 2011.
Marschall, Sabine. Landscape of memory : commemorative monuments, memorials and public statuary in post-apartheid South-Africa. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J and James Muzondidya (eds). Redemptive or grotesque nationalism? : rethinking contemporary politics in Zimbabwe. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Obadare, Ebenezer. Statism, youth, and civic imagination : a critical study of the National Youth Service Corps Programme in Nigeria. Dakar, Senegal : Codesria, c2010.
Obi, Cyril and Siri Aas Rustad (eds). Oil and insurgency in the Niger Delta : managing the complex politics of petro-violence. London ; New York : Zed Books Ltd., c2011
Osei, Philip D. and Joan N Nwasike. The contract system of employment for senior government officials : experiences from Africa. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.
Piper, Laurence. To serve and protect : the Inkathagate Scandal / as told to Laurence Piper by Brian Morrow. Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2010.
Quinn, Joanna R. The politics of acknowledgement : truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
Sadomba, Zvakanyorwa Wilbert. War veterans in Zimbabwe's revolution : challenging neo-colonialism & settler & international capital. Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2011.
Sarkin-Hughes, Jeremy. Colonial genocide and reparations claims in the 21st century : the socio-legal context of claims under international law by the Herero against Germany for genocide in Namibia, 1904-1908. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2009.
Sherwood, Marika. Origins of Pan-Africanism : Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa and the African diaspora. New York : Routledge, 2011.
Stapleton, Timothy. A military history of South Africa : from the Dutch-Khoi wars to the end of apartheid. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.
Vickers, Michael. A nation betrayed : Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2010.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Library collection moves
The following material is currently being packed and transported to Egham, but should be available to request again in a few days. Material held at Egham needs to be requested in advance and will be available within one or two working (Mon-Fri) days.
Any questions about the moves and Commonwealth Studies collections please contact david.clover@london.ac.uk
1. The Australian High Commission collection of books and periodicals
2. Commonwealth Studies Library: selected material in the following areas:
•Commerce (Classification mark HF – HF267)
•Finance (Classification mark HG)
•Public finance (Classification mark HJ)
•Political Science documents (Classification mark J)
•Agriculture – plant and animal industry (Classification mark S)
Any questions about the moves and Commonwealth Studies collections please contact david.clover@london.ac.uk
1. The Australian High Commission collection of books and periodicals
2. Commonwealth Studies Library: selected material in the following areas:
•Commerce (Classification mark HF – HF267)
•Finance (Classification mark HG)
•Public finance (Classification mark HJ)
•Political Science documents (Classification mark J)
•Agriculture – plant and animal industry (Classification mark S)
Friday, 20 May 2011
South Africa on Film
Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series
Centre for African Studies, University of London
SOUTH AFRICA ON FILM
BRIAN WILLAN, ‘Cinematographic calamity’ or ‘Soul-stirring appeal to every Briton’: reactions to Birth of a Nation in England and South Africa, 1915-1931
EMMA SANDON, (Birkbeck College, London): ‘The African Mirror Newsreel and African Film Productions Documentaries: Non-Fiction Film Production in South Africa, 1910 – 1950’
JACQUELINE MAINGARD, (University of Bristol) ‘Assignment Africa’: Colonial Imaginaries and Donald Swanson’s African Jim (1949) and The Magic Garden (1951) in South African Film History’
NEIL PARSONS, ‘Early Southern African Movies and the Lingering Ambiguities of South African Union, 1910 – 1923’
Discussant: Carli Coetzee (SOAS)
10 June, 2011
13.00 – 17.00
Birkbeck College
CLO GO2 Clore Management Centre
For directions see: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/centrallondon.pdf
Seminar Convenors: Wayne Dooling (wd2@soas.ac.uk); Hilary Sapire (h.sapire@bbk.ac.uk); Rebekah Lee (r.lee@gold.ac.uk)
Open Evening: Institute of Commonwealth Studies - MA in Human Rights, PhD Programme
Open Evening: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Summer Open Evening: Wednesday 22 June 2011, 3-6.30pm
We warmly invite you to our annual Summer Open Evening at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies on Wednesday 22 June.
If you are considering studying on either the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights or the Research degree programmes, please join us at our Senate House home in Malet Street from 3-6.30pm.
The evening will be an opportunity to:
• Learn more about the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights
• Chat with MA teaching staff
• Meet with Research degree supervisors
• Hear about our placement scheme
• Make contact with fellow incoming students and speak to alumni now working in the field
• Gain invaluable tips on how best to prepare for life as a student in London
More information will be posted on our website in due course. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Troy.Rutt@sas.ac.uk who will send you further information.
Why Study at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies?
The Institute provides excellent opportunities for postgraduate study, through its Master’s and Research degree programmes.
Our MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights is the longest-running multi-disciplinary and practice-oriented human rights MA programme in the UK. We have been training human rights advocates and defenders around the world since 1995.
"The MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights is a cutting edge postgraduate programme, achieving the objective of balancing academic rigour with a practical engagement in the field of human rights.”
(Nigel Eltringham, External Examiner 2010)
The Institute also provides supervision for interdisciplinary doctoral degrees, focusing increasingly on the Social Sciences, especially relating to Human Rights, Globalisation and Development, Politics, and Commonwealth History. Students can pursue their academic interests within the friendly and supportive environment of the Institute, enhanced by the outstanding libraries of the University of London, including our own prestigious library collection.
http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study.html
Summer Open Evening: Wednesday 22 June 2011, 3-6.30pm
We warmly invite you to our annual Summer Open Evening at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies on Wednesday 22 June.
If you are considering studying on either the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights or the Research degree programmes, please join us at our Senate House home in Malet Street from 3-6.30pm.
The evening will be an opportunity to:
• Learn more about the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights
• Chat with MA teaching staff
• Meet with Research degree supervisors
• Hear about our placement scheme
• Make contact with fellow incoming students and speak to alumni now working in the field
• Gain invaluable tips on how best to prepare for life as a student in London
More information will be posted on our website in due course. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Troy.Rutt@sas.ac.uk who will send you further information.
Why Study at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies?
The Institute provides excellent opportunities for postgraduate study, through its Master’s and Research degree programmes.
Our MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights is the longest-running multi-disciplinary and practice-oriented human rights MA programme in the UK. We have been training human rights advocates and defenders around the world since 1995.
"The MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights is a cutting edge postgraduate programme, achieving the objective of balancing academic rigour with a practical engagement in the field of human rights.”
(Nigel Eltringham, External Examiner 2010)
The Institute also provides supervision for interdisciplinary doctoral degrees, focusing increasingly on the Social Sciences, especially relating to Human Rights, Globalisation and Development, Politics, and Commonwealth History. Students can pursue their academic interests within the friendly and supportive environment of the Institute, enhanced by the outstanding libraries of the University of London, including our own prestigious library collection.
http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study.html
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Singapore Research Nexus
The Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) is a unique academic resource covering the wide range of research on Singapore produced by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the National University of Singapore.
It serves as a showcase for past research, a resource for current research and a platform for future research on Singapore. It is described as a useful tool for academics, policy makers and those with a general interest in how research has helped shape the story of Singapore.
Users may browse by keyword, author or department to access current as well as earlier research by faculty members and students in FASS. Disciplines covered include Singapore's history, geography, society, politics, economy, arts, and literature. Click on Research Gallery for an overview of current content.
It serves as a showcase for past research, a resource for current research and a platform for future research on Singapore. It is described as a useful tool for academics, policy makers and those with a general interest in how research has helped shape the story of Singapore.
Users may browse by keyword, author or department to access current as well as earlier research by faculty members and students in FASS. Disciplines covered include Singapore's history, geography, society, politics, economy, arts, and literature. Click on Research Gallery for an overview of current content.
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